Description
The objective of this activity is to design, develop and test a prototype mini system (gateway and terminal) capable of providing satellite backhauling services for future NB-IoT.
Targeted Improvements:Enables new satellite communication services forbackhaulingM2M and Internet-of-Things communications.
Description:Many terrestrial M2M/IoT needs are currently served with so-called LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Networks). It is however expected that the recently approved 3GPP NB-IoT standard will trigger a large-scale deployment of M2M/IoT networks using this standard, both by the incumbents and new terrestrial carriers.
Similar to the current 2G/3G/4G-backhaul - which is a significant market for satcom industry - there is a market expected for backhauling of NB-IoT networks especially for emerging countries and rural areas with low terrestrial network connectivity.
This activity aims at analysingthe latest satellite backhauling technologies and standards to design, develop and test a prototype mini system (gateway and terminal) at baseband digital level capable of providing satellite backhauling services for future NB-IoT.
The expected deliverables are:
- Study reportcontaining an analysis of the main backhauling scenarios for NB-IoT networks.
- Definition of the requirements to allow an efficientintegration of terrestrial NB-IoT with satellite backhaul.
- Implementation of the solution into an existing Gateway and terminal prototype.
- Demonstration of efficient backhauling of narrowband IoT in a representative environment using the developed hardware and software
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